Benjamin Carson Quotes

Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

Benjamin Carson

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• Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Inspiration

• I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

  

  Ice Cube
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Know

• Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Look

• By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • World
  • Career
  • Best

• A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Past
  • Experiences
  • Pull

• What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Always
  • Start
  • Size

• As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • America
  • Doubt
  • Socialism

• I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Regret

• Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom's home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Country
  • Only
  • Golfer

• Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Films

• When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the different approach to African football. We want to hear that Africans can do well, and Africans do well.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • World
  • Different
  • Team

• I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • World
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Music
  • Guy

• But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

  

  Anna Letitia Barbauld
  • Faith

• I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Wedding

• Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.

  

  Kelsey Chow
  • Opportunity
  • Passion
  • Dance

• If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents, maybe. And that's because, of course, oil is traded on a global market.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Single

• Compassion is a two way street.

  

  Frank Capra
  • Compassion

• Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Suffering
  • Animal
  • Compassion

• I'd drop whatever I was doing to show up to do the graveyard shift of 'America's Shopping Place.'

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Up
  • America
  • Shopping

• Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Opportunity
  • Exercise
  • Compassion